Li Ying's face was filled with a rare joy, and she walked into the hall and said to everyone: "Nothing, but His Majesty asked me to go over and inquire about it. Your Majesty also praised me and Li Siye personally."
"Hey, where's Li Siye?"
"Your Highness, I am here." Li Siye stood up from the desk, bowed and crossed his hands.
"Thanks to you, otherwise I would have fallen into the hands of Concubine Wu Hui and Yang Hui today."
Officers Zhan also followed behind and praised: "Your Highness is virtuous, and Li Qianniu's talent is just the right one for you."
"Your Highness will be able to have a talented person like Li Qianniu with quick wit, and he will definitely be able to rest easy in the future."
The roles of Zhan Shi and Chang Shi changed without any trace, as if they had never criticized Li Siye just now, and Li Siye did not care about them, but just looked at the faces of everyone around him.
"Keep drinking and celebrating!"
When Li Siye heard this, he quickly picked up the case and went to the next table to change places with everyone.
Li Ying quickly stretched out her hand to stop it and asked: "Siye, your achievements in the past few days are obvious to everyone. The banquet for your achievements should be at the top of the list. Why do you have to postpone it again?"
As he spoke, Li Siye began to use a gun and a stick: "Your Highness, you must not do it. Your inheritance is only a thousand cattle. How dare you let Director Zhan Shi be inferior to me?"
"Didn't I already say it before? Today's banquet will only judge the order of seats based on merit, regardless of superiority or inferiority." Although he said this to Li Siye, his eyes were looking at these East Palace officials, who had no choice but to lower their heads.
Stare at your feet.
Li Siye once again humbly humbly said: "No, Your Highness, all Director Zhan and Shi are all imperial scholars. How can I, a businessman with no talent and only a little cleverness, be above them?"
Officers Zhan were immediately panicked. They had just used these words to sway Li Siye, and now they had Li Siye use them intact. There was so much sourness in them that the prince couldn't possibly hear them.
They quickly lowered their bodies and persuaded Li Siye to enter: "Li Qianniu, please don't delay any longer. You are a talented person with a wide range of talents. When the East Palace was in crisis and His Highness was in financial difficulty, you volunteered yourself and solved such a big trouble for His Highness.
If you don’t take the first place, who dares to take the first place?”
"That's it, Li Qianniu, don't shirk anymore. You have already stood out from the crowd by offering this good advice. Your Highness will definitely use it in the future. We will still rely on you in the future."
Li Siye accepted it and reluctantly sat on the upper right side. The prince returned to the main seat in the palace and announced that he would continue to enjoy singing and dancing and tasting fine wine.
Everyone exchanged wine glasses and raised their glasses to drink together, and the atmosphere of the banquet reached a climax.
The prince was very drunk. He took the initiative to come down from the main seat with a wine glass and communicated closely with the officials of the Eastern Palace. He actually drank too much. He was usually reserved and didn't talk much. But after he was drunk, he completely let himself go. He held the wine glass while holding the wine glass.
Drink heavily while talking about today's events.
"Zhang Jiuling, Mr. Zhang! Even an old master like him, who is serious in speech and aloof, praised our strategy of selling invitations to the polo match, which is comparable to Sun Bin's strategy of instructing Tian Ji on horse racing."
"Li Linfu and Li Xianggong even praised you for defeating Sun Bin's strategy. Not only that, he also praised you for your talent as Sun Bin and Kong Ming!"
Li Linfu, you actually praised me like this?
Li Siye suddenly started to mutter, no one else knew who this Prime Minister was, but he knew it, and it was clearly written in the history books. He might be harboring some bad ideas secretly while he was praising someone on the surface like this.
While he was dealing with the prince, he began to think secretly in his heart, what did Li Linfu mean? It is difficult to guess the thoughts of the ancients, especially this kind of spirit.
As the saying goes, reading history can make people wise. When Li Siye couldn't figure out something, he started to trace the history. Li Linfu and Concubine Wu Hui were once allies. When the wise prime minister Zhang Jiuling stepped down, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty once asked Li Linfu about deposing the crown prince.
This man got the instructions from Concubine Wu Hui and deliberately said: "This is the Lord's family matter, why bother asking outsiders." It was this sentence that ruined the lives of the prince, King E and King Guang.
Now it is obvious what Li Linfu wants to do. This sentence about Sun Bin and Kong Ming's talent is actually to praise him. What Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was most afraid of was that the prince's power would threaten the emperor. Good guy, Zhuge Liang has appeared around you. Isn't this Zhuge Liang?
I want to help you seize the country and dominate the world. If you seize the world, will I be forced to become the supreme emperor by you?
Thinking of this, Li Siye was frightened. He almost lost his life because of this carelessness. It was too dangerous to stay with the prince! Not only was it dangerous to be around the prince, but it was also dangerous to be around Li Heng in the future. His elder brother
Isn’t that how uncle Wei Jian and old iron Wang Zhongsi were killed?
No, he had to have a heart-to-heart talk with the prince and point out the current crisis, otherwise everyone would be finished together.
He looked up at the drunken prince, shook his head and felt that if he couldn't do it now, he might as well wait until the prince sobered up tomorrow.
…
Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, sat cross-legged on a sandalwood couch in the back room of the Zichen Hall. On the stone platforms at the four corners of the couch were gilded incense burners, with ambergris slowly rising. In front of him were two rows of bookshelves.
There are two celadon urns squatting on the left and right, and two deep red peonies grow in the porcelain urns.
The atmosphere in the palace was quiet and peaceful, but the emperor's heart was stirred up. He recalled the bloody battles in the palace in the past. When Emperor Zhongzong died and Wei's mother and daughter rebelled, he led troops to kill the Wei family and after his victory, he wore the
When Tie Jia, who was stained with blood, went to see his father Ruizong in person, he saw in his father's eyes a mixture of emotions such as strangeness, fear, admiration, relief, and confusion, but there was no family affection. At that time, he felt that it was ridiculous that a father would be afraid.
his own son.
But as he is getting older and his sons are growing up, he finally realizes his father's fear and worry. The sons under his knees all have various desires, especially the prince, whose wings are gradually becoming fuller and more capable.
If you can't bear to wait, will you repeat the same mistake as your father and become a lonely and helpless emperor?
Gao Lishi walked in silently, stood beside the emperor and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, which empress will attend your bed tonight?"
Li Longji did not answer, but suddenly raised his head and asked: "I didn't pay much attention to Li Siye at the beginning. Shouldn't I have sent him to the prince's side?"
Of course Gao Lishi knew what Li Longji was worried about, so he restrained his hands and said: "Although I haven't read any books, I can still read people very accurately. Zhang Jiuling, Li Linfu and others have exaggerated. This Li Siye is not a great talent, but he is better than ordinary people."
Just be smarter."
Xuanzong changed to a more comfortable sitting position, his expression finally relaxed, he waved his hands and said with a smile: "Li Linfu certainly exaggerates, but Zhang Jiuling does not know how to exaggerate. Li Siye's plan is indeed brilliant. How can the person who can come up with such a wonderful method be...
A mediocre person?”
Gao Lishi was helpless. It seemed that Li Linfu's words had planted seeds in the emperor's heart. After thinking for a while, he stepped forward and said: "If your majesty is not worried about this person, then order him to be moved to another place. Or find an opportunity to summon him again."
Meet a person once and observe whether he has real talent and learning?"
"Very good," Li Longji nodded and told Gao Lishi: "Let Concubine Hui come to the Zichen Palace to sleep tonight."
"Here."
Concubine Wu Hui kept Li Linfu's clever plan in mind, and she ignored the emperor's advice when he was sleeping. She always praised the prince's close minister Li Siye intentionally or unintentionally, which made Li Longji even more suspicious.